Republican Party of Sao Paulo

The Republican Party of Sao Paulo (PRP), also known as the Paulist Party, was a conservative political party in Brazil which was active from 1873 to 1937. The party was created by liberal professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc.) and by rural landowners from Sao Paulo, and it was originally a band of republican revolutionaries supported by a local newspaper. The party sought to implement a republican federation in Brazil with a weak central government and autonomy for the states. The party, supported by powerful landowners, was in power for much of the First Brazilian Republic, and it became an institution dedicated to a form of bureaucracy that would dictate government policy until Getulio Vargas seized power in 1930 and abolished the old parties.